⇒ mum's 53rd/sunnyshine!

happy birthday mother!

The past was a brilliant memory for you, wealth and fortune greater than most of the country, life like no other. Now we live at the polar opposite.

I can't promise security or glory, but I want to try and make you proud. Do I make you happy? Please don't be sad...

I just saw Sunshine...my god, it's magnificent. Epic, tense, brilliant, gripping, poignant, stirring and fantastic. Cinematography, visual effects, soundtrack/score and pace--all unbelievably good. Storyline setup is quite inescapably preposterous but it is the future. Danny Boyle has cemented his place amongst my fave filmmakers (this and Trainspotting did it). The 1-2 combo of Danny and Alex Garland. Well done. I stayed through the whole end credits because I was so floored, I wanted more.

One of the best sci-fi movies I've seen in recent years.

Music/score was sweeping, atmospheric and enveloping. Something unnatural and overwhelming (in a good way) about it. Alot of ideas presented and explored, leaving more thoughts in my head. Just go see it while you can.

In the introduction to the Sunshine script, Alex Garland writes, "Sunshine was created out of a love of science, and of science fiction. In the same way that 28 Days Later attempted to look back towards older post-apocalyptic stories, such as Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Triffids, Sunshine looked back to films such as 2001, Alien, Dark Star and the original Solaris. This was slow-paced, outer-space science fiction. Hallucinatory sci fi about star travel and feeling claustrophobic while gazing into the void. A sub-genre, linked by a common theme: that what man finds in deep space is his unconscious." (thanks to King Faust for the quote)

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/24/corporations-finding-green-in-going-green/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/philips-patent-application-reveals-furry-display-plans/
http://www.plasmapong.com/index.html
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2007/02/72796


sumptuous, sweeping, elegant, beautifully composed website--the music and eye candy really help. WARNING: slightly NSFW and uses flash

http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm

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